more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images from world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter all day. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean family and friends and i know that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so personally. it's. the worst you are going through the white house or the. radio guy four minutes from the click. i want. to give you very very thing like this i'm told.

aloha welcome to break in this that i'm your host i mean mine let's talk about the west african nation of mali as i anticipate what we're hearing a lot more about in the coming weeks over the last few days french troops have been deployed to the country to counter-guerrilla forces and aid their army to reclaim areas occupied by militant groups so why should we care about this well because back in december the state department and treasury announced that two extremist groups existed in mali and movement for unity and jihad in west africa and officially labeled them as terrorist groups mali has been and remains an area where the u.s. routinely carries out unmanned drone operations and this past monday defense secretary leon panetta announced that quote we have a responsibility to make sure that al qaeda is not establish a base for operations in north africa and mali and they might not have in any

immediate plans for attacks in the u.s. and in europe alternately that still remains their objective but france already engaged in a ground offensive the question remains how long before the u.s. joins them there the irony here is that the u.s. government has aligned itself with military leaders that ousted all these did damage. radically elected leadership last month a point that would make u.s. intervention in the country illegal according to u.s. law as the whole situation is starting to blur the line between the good guys and the bad guys so if the thought of yet another convoluted war abroad to fight terrorism irks you like it does me stick around because i'm breaking that set. the tone for a never seen anything like the. guys are trying to make the show a platform for alternative voices by providing a space for art activism and honest journalism one together having said that my

next guest is no stranger to the idea is a vocal activist which is where i met him first on the ground in the streets of oakland during the occupy protests he's also renowned hip hop artist whose work with such revolutionary musicians as tupac and dead prez now you might know him as the front man and producer of the coup and street sweeper social club just got back from twitter in his new album sorry to bother you artist producer political activist raymond boot riley i talked to him joined me earlier on the show i talked to him about everything from occupy oakland in the systemic failures of capitalism crony capitalism and much more take a look. i think it was a. grand success i think that for generations the media has put forward an analysis of the problems that we have. as

that is as far away from the class analysis as possible. everything from. putting forward the idea that there is this culture of poverty that's creating priority to the idea that you know even the idea when people talk about lower class middle class and upper class is this. that idea is something that is put forward. as opposed to the idea that there's a working class and a ruling class and the idea of the one percent versus the ninety nine percent is a great way to talk about the idea that that not only is there a wealth disparity that there's a functional relationship between that well between the wealthy and the impoverished or the wealthy in the not so wealthy that that the ninety nine percent produces the wealth for the one percent and i think that that got across really well not only that idea but the idea that not only are things missed but there's

something to do about do do about it i think. in things that happen in occupy oakland and other places there were tactics put on the table that let people know that not only are people mad about what's happening but there are things that you can do about it and and we saw after that we saw developments happen. you know a couple months after occupy oakland had a general strike in then another push down. occupy nigeria. had a general strike all across nigeria with. with everything shut down trains. airports industry everything was shut down hundreds of thousands of people in the street in each city and. and it definitely you know was

connected and part of that outgrowth in chicago you had the chicago teachers strike which was at the same time. one of the more militant strikes. that we've seen publicized in the united states and. on point with their message of connecting it to the community so that it wasn't just. a labor and wage issue being brought up and got a lot of support from the community that support from the community had to do with this new atmosphere. you had wal-mart workers going out on on on strike you know a lot of walking out in a lot of places all over the country and the ideas definitely caught fire and it really does seem like at the time is now globally i mean i think a lot of people around the world are realizing that this is this current form of predatory capitalism imperialism is unsustainable it's a crash course but let's talk about just the system as

a whole i mean do you think that even fighting for single issues war health care education i mean do these struggles do these fights go far enough or is it crucial and your eyes to fight the entire system at its core i mean is there any way we can reform the system or do we need a straight up revolution. in the end result we need. a whole new system. we need a system and how i explain it to people is that we need to we need a system where the people democratically controlled the wealth that they create with their labor. you can call that communism socialism you can call it an hour close socialism you call it i don't care but we need something where the people have more democratic control have a do have control of the world over the wealth that they create now the question is a lot of people would agree with i thing. most of the world would agree with that and you know when people watch this on you tube there's going to be

a whole bunch of people disagreeing with it that's fine but most of the world will agree with that now that the thing that a lot of people disagree on is how we would get there i would say that and that's where the reform struggles come in that in order to change the system you need a revolutionary movement you need a mass movement and you need people to understand that they have the power to change it because in the end result what's going to have to happen is that the people that work at the facilities that produce the the wealth you know are going to have to take them over and just run them for themselves and have a way to communicate with each other. and that is not going to happen overnight and that's not going to happen just by pushing putting forward theory how that is going to have to happen is by people winning small victories such as wage increases. such

as. being involved in housing struggles in which people win through the power of numbers it's not going to happen by getting the city council to have new legislation because it doesn't build the movement it's going to have you have to get involved in revolutionary led reform struggles that say look this is what we're fighting for right now but this is not the end result this is just a step on the ladder to building a movement to changing the whole system every revolution has happened. as has been successful in at least making a revolution whether you disagree with what happened afterward and. the revolutions where they were able to get the community to rise up and change the system were ones in which. they had small victories along the way and those small victories had to do with changing material conditions because one of the reasons why people aren't involved in the movement and they'll tell you is because they're trying to

pay the bills well their struggle to survive is their individual fight with the system. as organizers our job is to collectivize those individual fights against the system and move them forward so yeah each little fight you know around health care or whatever individually is not going to help but if if they're being done with the idea of total. restructuring of the system and and a revolutionary movement in mind then they help to build it and so people have to be outward in their intention of saying we're going to win this here this is just one of the steps right a lot of people just simply because i critique capitalism on the show assume that i must be a socialist a communist i mean all of these barriers of language that prevent us from really looking at the current model that is unsustainable i mean you don't have to be

a genius to look at what's happening and say all of these things are symptomatic of a larger problem but i wanted to talk about dissent i mean of course you know dissent is essential it's crucial it's the most patriotic thing you can do but i mean in light of the harsh police brutality of occupy wall street i mean we know that the crackdowns are federalized from the top down and things like the n.b.a. the surveillance grid i mean do you think all this is being set up by the establishment and dissipating this breaking point for the social movement when it does happen. you know i don't spend a lot of time thinking about that. you know if you're on one team in a football game you've got to expect the other team to try to win. and. the government the cia the f.b.i. they're on the side of the ruling class they're not on the side of the people they're trying to help the ruling class when. us worrying about in analyzing the

ways in which they're trying to win actually. sometimes takes away from our ability to organize people. so we get so caught up in talking about how powerful the state is that we make them seem more powerful than they are and then people decide to not organize you know it's not simply exposing the problems. is what we need what we have to do is expose that there's a possibility of changing it and where the people where and showing people where their power actually is so this system capitalism is based on capital it's based on profit how do they get the profit they get the profit at the at the point in which there is labor that creates the profit in the commodity who creates the

people so that's where our power lies in our ability to stop profit at its production source. we have to show people that we have to more than we have to show you know how crazy the lengths the state is going to to create a fascist society we have to show people that they have the power to change it because repress exposing repression doesn't breed resistance. it breeds maybe people feeling like they're more knowledgeable about how they're being repressed but it doesn't it's not the thing that gets people to do something what gets people to do something is is an idea that they couldn't that that they can change something and that they can join with other people and change something and i saw that cannot be suppressed at all unfortunately birds are out of time but i just wanted to some advice and i agree with you i think it takes away people's agency it takes away their ability to really act and it really does create the

chilling effect and that's what we need to really counter. thank you so much for your time for coming in raymond boots riley a producer of the coup and political activist. thank you. so if you like the interview with its rally and want to see more and check out the full interview on our you tube channel at youtube dot com suspect to set him or her out if you can also subscribe to us there check us out on hulu as well as move dot com slash breaking set and check our facebook page at facebook dot com breaking the set if you want to read what i'm doing when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin take a break my preaching but stay tuned for about the media's herd mentality next.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

well it seems the storyline surrounding notre dame football player. fake dead girlfriend is still in the media spotlight and it's the media part of this particular story that i find so intriguing so let me catch you up on it. teo and notre dame linebacker who played with a heavy heart the season after learning that first his grandmother had passed away and later same day reports surfaced that girlfriend a woman named. quad also died now despite this reported tragedy of his recently deceased girlfriend who went on to while the sports world by leaving a big win for his team well the media ran with the inspirational story and when i say ran i mean sprinted these are all the media outlets who will receive the highlight the story failed journalism one o one because you see none of them decided to fact check and see if there is a death record or any record for that matter for

a girl named. to match up with story and yesterday deadspin did the work these organizations failed to uncovered there's actually zero real record of his girlfriend at all so to talk about the media's herd mentality when it comes to this and other stories like a dream i argue corresponding christine for zero studio and from our new york city you see the church going to thank so much you guys for coming on to do so christine you know this isn't even just the case of the media jumping the gun on the story like the health care decision where they might have reported it wrong because it's just you know this flurry this really confusing thing is that the media is telling a story about a girl who literally didn't exist i mean what does it say the media does zero fact check a good old i mean there's a whole lot of factors here number one everyone loves a good heart wrenching story especially about a religious talented young football player they did get a source they got him you know but they didn't get you right they didn't get you

know a second and third source they didn't even look not only a death tax and they didn't see if there was a birth record so is. it is really interesting and i think there's a lot of things we have to consider here number one we're living in a society where we have twitter we have facebook we have so much social media and the media so often you give the health care example of the media wanting to get it first more than they wanted to get it right but the problem is you're right they've thrown a journalism one o one out the window and i think. you know deadspin an awesome publication is throwing it all back in everybody's faces and saying you know what let's get back to basics. mostly i wanted to turn to you you covered the sandy hook shooting i mean while the news was breaking on that day we heard so many alternative theories about multiple gunmen running into the woods different guns being different suspects me as a reader of course these inconsistency is breed of course so many alternative theories to arise on the internet i mean isn't this just irresponsible of the

corporate media to rush to report every single thing and not follow up with you apologize and retract in releasing information and say you know what we were wrong here's the solid evidence we've got i mean i think digging themselves deeper in a hole by doing this absolutely abhi they are i mean the answer is simple it is in fact very responsible of the particular case of the sandy hook elementary shooting where especially in the first twenty four hours when the news broke we had fact after fact dozens of examples where the media one outlet after another got the facts wrong you know starting from the suspects name to how many guns he did or did not have with him how many family members he shot before going to the school you know kind of speculations about his bio and the question is very legitimate what is the race here like you say why are they you know not even running but sprinting to get this false often information out there in a competition to beat the other the other outlets and speaking of responsibility i mean it's not just a public responsibility that they have to bring facts so the viewers that actually

exist but also in a more personal level i mean just imagine if. you know they give the wrong name of the suspect and that person's mother is watching and she thinks her son did this terrible thing i mean this tragedy in itself twenty little children just died it's obviously one of the most tragic stories that happens in quite some time in the united states what really is the hard to get completely lot wrong information out there it's really a transfixing question it is that i think so much confusion really breeds a lot of the a lot of speculation a lot of people who just don't even know what to think because of their failures to report this chrysalis going to you i think from an outside perspective when people look at the establishment media they say you know it seems like all these different presidents just kind of parrot government talking points and don't really ask hard questions i mean your white house press corps spondon what you know it's one of the most frustrating things ever because you know most newsrooms you know every morning

they sit around and they talk about the important stories of the day and usually i mean at least a few years ago there was the desire to be different there was a desire of course to be first in the ratings but to be different to make each newscast and each segment their own when i sit in these briefings it is amazing how frequently the same question is asked by c.n.n. and n.b.c. fox and b c c.b.s. a.b.c. so often and jay will even joke that was a really creative way of asking the exact same question that's already been asked three times why not you know even if you're focusing on the debt ceiling or algeria if the questions already been asked to move on or think of a different angle of the story so often i'm sitting there and i literally hear you know all these because they do they call in the corporate media every single one of them first and there's so many other people with interesting good questions to ask the government that never get called on and yet jay is having to say the same thing you know i already said i'm not going to answer that i already said i don't have

information so i think you said it best there is a herd mentality going on and i don't know if it's because people over for. they are afraid. of another station getting it first or if they just feel like they're in the safety zone i've got a report with my colleagues are reporting because that and we know the news today how they treat jake tapper and helen thomas when they do ask hard questions it's just like outrageous i mean now i say we have about a minute left but what is the consequences are of this media herd mentality complete negligence when it comes to fact i mean ultimately this goes beyond a couple staff was it really shapes and there is an influence in the public sphere well i think you know the consequences depend on this kind of story that they're getting wrong if it's something like the case with this football player inventing a girlfriend certainly you know it's a ridiculous story but it's not going to have any important social impact people will laugh people will talk about it they'll move on but there are so many other more much more important stories even i mean the simplest examples of course the wars that the united states is involved in iraq afghanistan libya syria just

repeating the same narrative and what ends up happening is the public is misinformed and the history really of the united states a shift in a in a way that is false because that's how people will end up remembering the way the stories that are covered salute leave beautifully put thank you so much ladies for joining us from new york a scene from our studio here good to be here. throughout my childhood i've always known of a facility called the lawrence livermore national laboratory located in the city adjacent to my own it was looked at the community is just a research facility where a lot of smart scientists worked on nuclear developments and other important technological initiatives earlier this year my brother and i started researching nuclear weapons testing and what the psychological impacts were when we took nuclear testing into a virtual space and as our investigation unfolded be found at the livermore lab has

built an impressive greenwashing p.r. campaign that cloaks a much more sinister reality and to give you some context all the nuclear weapons stockpile management nuclear weapons technology come from two locations in the united states los alamos laboratory new mexico which is surrounded by a giant lot of empty land and the lawrence livermore laboratory which is a square mile facility located right next to a city of ninety thousand people a large scale disaster or nuclear accident happening here it would affect the entire bay area comprise of san francisco oakland with over seven million people living in it. the u.s. used to blow up to full scale nuclear weapons in open air to the nine hundred sixty three limited test ban treaty which permitted the continuation of nuclear testing underground and one hundred ninety two congress passed the nuclear test in moratorium act which banned all nuclear testing now to compensate for the loss of full scale underground nuclear test in the department of energy created the stockpile stewardship program which built new facilities that test different components of a nuclear weapons explosion using

a supercomputer to put them all together so ok the livermore lab is testing some nuclear components no big deal it's not like they've been responsible for a giant radiation leak or anything right. actually fully the quests have revealed that the lab has already released over a million curies of radiation since they opened in the fifty's to give you some context it's about the same amount of radiation that was released in the bombing of hiroshima furthermore a thirty year study from the state health department found that shoulder. born in livermore have six times the expected rate of malignant melanoma and are three times more likely to have brain cancer another more a loose of site buried in the hills behind the lab it's called site three hundred it's a live fire explosives test range where they blow up highly radioactive compounds that my brother and i found that are testing depleted uranium and tritium the radioactive hydrogen in the hydrogen bomb and open air tests as you can see site three hundred happens to be located at

a very high velocity wind area well we went to livermore earlier this year to talk to the residents and see if they even knew of the existence of site three hundred the purpose of the lawrence livermore lab and the potential danger they both pose the community. have you heard anything about what they're doing well nuclear research. i don't know nuclear engineering development type stuff and i can hear what they do at the lab but i'm not quite sure what it is they're really doing but i know there's some medical a lot of it is research into different materials i've heard you know they have a bio lab i think anything from nucular stuff to making weapons i couldn't have you heard about say three hundred i have not three hundred three hundred three three no i haven't heard about site three hundred three hundred as it's a where they actually test the nuclear material they depleted uranium and radioactive tritium in the hills where it's pretty high velocity when we live.

it's not good good lord that's moral i didn't know. it's amazing how disempowered communities are were fraid to ask questions about a super secret nuclear weapons facility in our own backyard the truth of matter is that this country has a nuclear weapons complex that is still stuck in the cold war era our military has over five thousand nuclear weapons two thousand of which are in rodeos ready to. alert at all times when polled eighty percent of the american population say that they would feel safer if no country including the u.s. had nuclear weapons because in the back of our minds we all know that at any moment by mistake by miscalculation or by madness life as we know it could and i grew up next to the slab without knowing anything about it i was just like the people you just saw the notion i want to leave you with tonight is that it's not too late

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